The lifting of U.S. sanctions on the export to Iran of communication tools has been welcomed by activists and groups who had pushed for such a move and argued that the sanctions end up hurting ordinary Iranians, not the regime. On May 30, the U.S. Treasury and the State Department said they were removing […]
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Iranian Presidential Candidates Accuse State TV of Censorship, Unethical Behavior
Iranian presidential candidate and former top nuclear negotiator Hassan Rohani has accused the country’s state-controlled broadcaster of unethical behavior and lies. He voiced the criticism on May 27 during his first television interview as a candidate with Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), during which he defended his past performance as nuclear negotiator and […]
Iranian elected president of international rights body
Iranian lawyer and human rights activist Karim Lahiji has been elected president of the International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH), succeeding Souhayr Belhassen, who served as FIDH chief for six years. The report on the FIDH website indicates that Lahiji, who previously served as FIDH vice president and president of the League of Defence […]
Iranian firefighter saves lives, even after his death
According to Jalal Maleki, the spokesman of Iran’s Firefighters Organization, body parts of firefighter Omid Abbasi will be offered to patients in need of transplants. Abbasi died during a mission in north Tehran after saving a girl from a fire in a residential complex.Jalal Maleki told Mehr News that “firefighters received a call informing […]
Emergency Transfer of Dervish Lawyer, Amir Eslami to Hospital after Heart Attack
Imprisoned Gonabadi Dervish lawyer, Amir Eslami, was taken to hospital after he had a heart attack.Amir Eslami, one of the jailed Dervish lawyers suffered the acute heart failure yesterday on 25 Ordibehesht 1392 ( May 14 2013) in Ward 350 of Evin prison which caused him to fall unconscious and could not be breathing […]
Letter from the Paris Bar association in support of Iranian lawyers
As part of a campaign to support Iran’s independent legal profession in calling for the cancellation of the “Bill of Formal Attorneyship”, a bill that in essence transfers total supervisory control over lawyers to a quasi-judicial body, the Paris Bar association has sent a letter to Iranian authorities expressing its concerns over the proposed Bill. […]
MASNAVI MANAVI: The Harper
THE SPIRITUAL COUPLETSOFMAULANA JALALU-‘D-DlN MUHAMMAD RUMI Book I.STORY VIII. The Harper In the time of the Khalifa ‘Omar there lived a harper, whose voice was as sweet as that of the angel Israfil, and who was in great request at all feasts. But he grew old, and his voice broke, and no one would employ […]
Refugee Iranian Photojournalist In Turkish Security Prison
The Turkish authorities arrested Hossein Salmanzadeh, an Iranian photojournalist and a refugee in Turkey, on April 26 and have detained him inside the Ankara Security Police Detention Center, Javad Moghimi Parsa told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. According to Javad Moghimi, Salmanzadeh’s close friend and former colleague, Salmanzadeh embarked on a […]
Iranian workers mark May Day with protest
A group of workers gathered in front of Iranian parliament on the occasion of the International Worker’s Day to protest against their inadequate wages in the face of rising inflation. ILNA reports that the workers held a protest demanding a reconsideration of the minimum wage increase which was approved for this year. Meanwhile official […]
Sanctions and Regime Policies Cause Growing Crisis in Iran
New Study Exposes Deterioration of Economic and Social Rights (April 29, 2013) The international community should target sanctions more effectively to impose costs on the Iranian government and not its citizens, and the Iranian government should end its policies that worsen the crisis in access to medicines, foods, and other essential imports, the International […]